Connotation

About: Connotation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2096 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8265 citations.

Cooperative Professional Development among School Teachers

Abstract: Cooperative professional development among school teachers is not only an important resources but also a model of teacher professional development. The connotation,significance,premise conditions and implementation methods of cooperative professional development among school teachers are analyzed.

Network Central Warfare and Its Elicitation to Efficient Support

Abstract: In this paper, we introduced the background and history of network central warfare (NCW), concluded the definition and connotation of NCW, analyzed the elements of NCW, discussed the elicitation of NCW to achieve efficient support, brought forward some assumptions and keys about the application to achieve efficient support in our army.

On the Theme Development of Economic-style Hotels

Abstract: This paper first expounds the definition and economic characteristics of Economic-style Hotels and the signification the theme development of the hotel. Then it analyzes the importance of the theme development of development of Economic-style Hotels. LASTLY the paper puts forward some suggestion ,such as ascertaining the objectives markets,focusing on the theme of cultural connotation ,handling the cost problems, etc.

The Completely New Stage of Management in Firms——Reputation Management

Abstract: Management in the foreign firms has entered the completely new stage -reputation management. The paper expounds the connotation and the importance of the reputation management,analyses the favorable condition and the unfavorable condition of enforcing the reputation management in firms in China,and puts forwards the suggestion and the measure of enforcing the reputation management in firms.

Cross-Linguistic Intertranslatability of Culturally Loaded Terms

Abstract: The paper tests if the translation of Javanese local cultural terms can denotatively be conveyed in English. The tool employed for this purpose is componential analysis of meaning, which can objectively asses the accuracy of the translation. In addition to this analysis, this study also discusses connotative assigned to the cultural terms by native speakers of Javanese and English. Connotative meanings were determined by collecting data from native speakers via questionnaires. The responses indicate which connotative meanings the respondents assigned to local cultural terms and their English equivalents. The findings indicate that at the denotative level, local cultural terms are very problematic. It is driven by the fact that though translators have tried to find the closest equivalents in the target language, there are still semantic features that differentiate both the source text and the target text. It demonstrates that full intertranslatability of cultural terms is not possible at denotative level. This study classifies the results of the translation into five classifications: (1) both the denotation and the connotation are different; (2) different denotations but the same connotations; (3) both of denotations and connotations are identical or near identical; (4) generic target text; and (5) specific target text. The findings show that respondents can attribute connotations to cultural terms only if they have been exposed to them and are familiar with the concepts that they convey. The connotations can semantically be classified into good or bad; active or passive; and strong or weak. It is also shown that people of the same cultural background do not always have the same connotations. Their prior knowledge plays and important role in determining what kind of connotations they yield. It is clear that connotations consist of posteriori knowledge. Key words: denotation, connotation, cultural terms, intertanslatability.